Here is my progress so far on the paramount star quilt!  Not much!  But I finally found a pattern for the corner blocks which was one of my biggest road blocks!  And now the other big road block is what to put in the vine border!  I am just not a quilting designer!  I started to quilt around all of the sawtooth borders…….yuch….  Happy quilting!

Tricia

Hello, well I must say, if I found it easier to put pictures in my blog ( or if I wasn’t so computer illiterate (sp.?) I would blog more………anyways……I finally have my parmount star quilt on my quilting frame!  Wholly cow!  Can you believe it!  I can’t!  Neither can my husband!  It has been sitting there for a week……  I quilted three formal feather wreaths on it.  Started to quilt in the saw tooth borders and goofed up on the leaf border so I did some frogging already! FUN!  Still don’t know how I am going to quilt the whole thing.  I am not a creative person when it comes to designing a quilt top.  I wish there were classes on how to look at a top and how to come up with ideas because I never have a clue at how to look at it and how to design ideas.  Anyways, off to “designing”.  8) 

Trish

Here are my pictures of the wagon wheel quilt I finally finished!  I did a pantograph on it.   I couldn’t figure out what to do on it and my husband thought it looked so “fall like” and wanted leaves and acorns on it.  So I found a pantograph with leaves and acorns and there you go!  It is very dark! It is Moda’s snow blooms fabric.  Very pretty fabric.  I am so slow with quilts.  I don’t know how people just spit out so many quilts!  Must be nice!

Well, I didn’t fall off the face of the earth!  I have been so busy with my new job!  It sure has been fun!  I feel stupid all over again!  I hate being in orientation.  I feel so dumb.  Anyways, I did get two quilts pieced……one is actually on the frame and I have absolutely no idea how to quilt it.  That is because I don’t quilt much.  My husband said “just do a pantograph on it!”  It is too pretty to do that to it!  When I have time, I will put a picture of it up.  Happy quilting!  Trish

Woo Hoo! I start my new job on Monday the 19th!  I have been a pediatric RN in the ICU at Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin for 8 years.  I am starting my new job in the Emergency room at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Milwaukee.  Back to adults! I have been an ICU nurse for 11 years and I need a change!  So this will be totally different!  Can’t wait! 

Trish

So here is my paramount star picture of my blue and white quilt and what I am trying to figure out what to quilt on it.  I want to do formal feathers in the blue squares (thats what that is in the top left hand corner!)  It isn’t easy drawing in paint!  I am trying to figure out which crosshatch to do in the blue triangle or the basket weave stencil in the right lower corner triangle (yes that’s what it is!) I was trying to upload a stencil picture to show you the stencil I was looking at but that wasn’t working….oh well.  By the time I get figured out what I want done on this thing I’ll be too old to quilt it!  I should just send it out to a really talented longarm quilter!  All I am doing is procrastinating!  Happy quilting    Trish

So I started off my evening playing or pounding as I call it when I do the Hanson finger exercises!  What a stress relief playing can be.  I forget how much I enjoy it, then the kids try and take over!  My five year old daughter wants to learn but only on the black keys!  Anyways,  I went to the Chicago Quilt Festival last week? and bought this little fish pattern……cute, hey?  You should have seen all of the cute hanging fish she had in her booth!  CUTE.  Not so cute when you are trying to make the FISH.  I guess that is why I am a quilter and not a sewer.  I sew straight seams well.  Not fish.  It still needs the fin on top.  Sara stuffed it, she sure liked that part!    I finally finished quilting my daughters flower quilt that she cut out and ironed on the fabric.  Now, I am not a creative type of quilter so my meandering around on  the quilt here is pretty sad!  I need some Suzanne Earley books!  So please don’t laugh at my attempt at freehanding around on this and my next quilt my sons quilt.  He picked out the fabrics, cut out the squares, sewed them all together (I did the outside border)  He is now 8 but was 7 when he started it.  It has been hanging around for awhile waiting for me to put it on the machine!So, like I said, don’t laugh!  This was my attempt to make it look like “flames”!  Pretty silly!  Happy quilting!  Trish

Wow, another quilt shop is closing here in Southeastern Wisconsin.   Calico Canvas and Colors has announced they are closing shop. Retiring!  They said there have been four quilt shops in southeastern WI that have closed this last year or past winter.  Wow.  A lot to do with internet sales.  Not as many people buying in the quilt shop.  Now that confuses me.  Why would I want to pay the same price for fabric and pay an additional shipping charge on top of that?  I like to feel and play with them lay the fabrics next to each other.  The computer never does the colors justice!  We don’t have many quilt shops left here in WI!  I am going to have to move!  Although, I don’t think my husband would like that very much!  he-he .  So of course I had to do some serious shopping and buy backing fabric for all of the quilts I have in progress!  $300+ later!  The whole store is 20% off!  How fun is that!  I keep telling myself to just buy what I need right now because I have to buy backing and you know how much at a time you have to buy for that.  Anyways, happy quilting.

Trish

Two post in one day!  I know this is a longarming ring and I haven’t done any on my gammil for……I can’t believe I am saying this…..over a year…so I thought I would at least post a few pictures of a quilt I had done for a friend of mine.  She had just brought it up recently because she had made it for her daughters wedding and she still has not put the binding on it and that was 2 years ago!  Anyways,  hopefully someday I will actually finish piecing one of the many projects I have started and put one of them on the frame and actually quilt it and the paramount star I just have to get the nerve up to quilt it since I really have done very few quilts.Enjoy!  Happy quilting, Trish

So while I am having fun piecing together one of my charm packs, I put my 5 year old daughter to work!I had her line up the pieces of the quilt block!  I told her that she had to match the above row  as far as direction of little squares and that two colors couldn’t be next to each other.  No two reds, no two greens, no two blacks.  She put them next to one another….row by row and I sewed them together as she went, row by row…and she helped me put this block together.  Hopefully someday I can get her to love quilting like I do!  She loves putting the colors together!